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What Time Is It?

What Time Is It?. Today’s Topic. The factorial function (n!) Permutations Combinations. Sample Question:. The Mathletes club has 8 members. We need to send 2 students to the front office. How many different combinations of 2 students can we send?. Students A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H. AB AC

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What Time Is It?

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  1. What Time Is It?

  2. Today’s Topic • The factorial function (n!) • Permutations • Combinations

  3. Sample Question: • The Mathletes club has 8 members. We need to send 2 students to the front office. How many different combinations of 2 students can we send?

  4. Students A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H • AB • AC • AD • AE • AF • AG • AH • BC • BD • BE • BF • BG • BH • CD • CE • CF • CG • CH • DE • DF • DG • DH • EF • EG • EH • FG • FH • GH • 28 possibleways!

  5. Does Order Matter? • For the classroom example, no. • Where might it matter? • Running a race – who gets First Place? Second? Third? • Lottery drawing – who gets the Grand Prize? The runner-up?

  6. The Factorial (!) Function • For a positive integer, n, we define n! as follows… • Example:

  7. Example • Compute 7!

  8. How to compute 7!

  9. One Thing to Note 0! = 1

  10. Permutations (Order Matters) • How many ways can you choose r people from a group of size n if the order matters?

  11. Permutations Example • 7 people are running a race. In how many different ways can first, second, and third place awards get handed out? • n = 7, r = 3

  12. Permutations Example

  13. Combinations (Order Doesn’t Matter) • How many ways can you choose r people from a group of size n if the order DOESN’T matter?

  14. Combinations Example • The Mathletes club has 8 members. We need to send 2 students to the front office. How many different combinations of 2 students can we send? • n=8, r = 2

  15. Combinations Example • Same answer as before:

  16. Different Notations • Permutations • nPr • P(n,r) • Combinations • nCr, C(n,r) • “n choose r”

  17. Closure • Evaluate each of the following: • What patterns show up?

  18. Challenge! • Show that for any r and n.

  19. Freak Out Your Friends!

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